New Aspects On Tethyan Cretaceous Fossil Assemblages (schriftenreihe Der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommission)

Front Matter....Pages 1-5 Front Matter....Pages 7-7 Tethys — the evolution of an idea....Pages 9-14 The Lower Cretaceous Mésogée: A state of the art....Pages 15-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Les Algues crétacées: tendances générales....Pages 37-44 A review of low-latitude “Tethyan” calcareous nannoplankton assemblages of the Cretaceous....Pages 45-55 The structure and distribution of the European Cretaceous brachiopod assemblages with emphasis on the Tethyan fauna....Pages 57-74 Palaeogeographic distribution of Cretaceous Tethyan non-rudist bivalves....Pages 75-94 Distribution of gastropods within the Cretaceous Tethyan realm....Pages 95-128 Front Matter....Pages 129-129 Les assemblages des pollens normapolles du Cretacé supérieur des rivages ouest européens de la Tethys....Pages 131-154 Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia....Pages 155-170 Ostracodes du Crétacé moyen et supérieur Téthysien Etat des connaissances — paléogéographie....Pages 171-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Albian and Cenomanian foraminifera from the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Carpathians, Poland)....Pages 187-200 Stratigraphy and biozonation of a reference Aptian — Albian p.p. Tethyan carbonate platform succession: The Sierra del Carche series (oriental Prebetic zone — Murcia, Spain)....Pages 201-221 Les successions d’ammonites et la subdivision des étages du Crétacé inférieur téthysien....Pages 223-230 Rudists and Larger Foraminifera below the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Dolenja Vas Section....Pages 231-240 The geologic term "Tethys" introduced by Eduard Suess (1893) into science was originally a paleogeographic one. Since its original description it has been used in various ways. One of them is Tethys as a paleo-biogeographic concept. This concept was adopted for IGCP Project 262, Tethyan Cretaceous Correlation. It was proposed by G. Czaszar and Heinz A. Kollmann and has been approved by the IGCP Board in February 1987. The project has its aims primarily in the improvement of the stratigraphic correlation between the heterogenous facies of the Tethyan realm. The requests to paleontology in this programme are of various kinds: The delimitation of the Tethyan realm in space and time needs clear statements on the composition of Tethyan faunal or floral assemblages. Biozones based on various fossil groups have to be established for biostratigraphic correlation. Finally, Tethyan bioprovinces have to be established. These problems have been discussed in a special meeting of the paleontological group of the project which was held on January 25-27, 1988, in Vienna. Papers presented at this meeting are published in this volume Details the special meeting of a palaeontological group concerned with "Tethys" - a geological term introduced by Eduard Suess in 1893. The aim of the meeting was to improve the stratigraphic correlation between the heterogenous facies of the Tethyan realm.